RAM and CPU selection

[rokkotnik]

Hi everyone, 

 

as i mentioned before i am bulding new PC for virtualization this year. So far i purchased:

- Gigabyte 570 Aurus pro

- Be quiet Straight power 11 550w

- Samsung NVME 970 evo plus 500gb

- 2x 1tb wd blue 7200

- Dark rock 4 slim CPU cooler

- 3x Pure wings 120mm fans

 

But as goes for Memory and CPU i still am not sure. For the CPU i am leaning towards of R7 3700x or maybi R5 3600x (probably 3700x because of cores ), but as goes for ram i have no idea. OR should i find some good deal on 3900x ?

I want to have 64gb of ram and i found  bellows kit for like 300eu in my country.

 

Ripjaws V DDR4 64GB PC 3200 CL16 G.Skill KIT (2x32) F4-3200C16D-64GVK

 

Should i buy 2x32gb or 4x16, should i invest ~50eu more for RAM to buy better clocks ? I want to have 3200mhz 64gb.

 

Thanks, BR Rok

[Haro]

2 minutes ago, rokkotnik said:

Should i buy 2x32gb or 4x16, should i invest

 The cheaper one 

In terms of bandwidth both will be at dual channel so no difference there 

3 minutes ago, rokkotnik said:

I want to have 3200mhz 64gb.

You will more likely get better speeds with 2x32 gigs because it's less work for both the imc and the interconnect

 

3 minutes ago, rokkotnik said:

But as goes for Memory and CPU i still am not sure. For the CPU i am leaning towards of R7 3700x or maybi R5 3600x (probably 3700x because of cores ), but as goes for ram i have no idea. OR should i find some good deal on 3900x ?

The 3700x is a sweet spot 

If you can find a 3900x for around 400-350ish bucks ( from what I can see this is what it usually goes for ) and you can afford it 

Go for it , if you can't go for the 3700x 

As for the 3600x , don't consider it , get a 3600 if you want something like it 

It has the same ipc and fpu 

I dont know what type of work load or how heavy it will be 

But for virtualization , I guess go for the 3700x and above 

[boggy77]

i would rather go with 3900x and 32gb ram than 3700x and 64gb ram. I can't think of any scenario where a home user would need more than 30gb ram. and with ryzen it's always better to have 2 sticks, not 4

[rokkotnik]

Just now, boggy77 said:

i would rather go with 3900x and 32gb ram than 3700x and 64gb ram. I can't think of any scenario where a home user would need more than 30gb ram. and with ryzen it's always better to have 2 sticks, not 4

Yes i will need 64gb ram. Vcenter alone will required 10gb of ram, and then dns, mail, web server, windows 10 ( 8gb ) and free nas ( 8gb ) and i want to have some space for testing.